The IFF Referee Committee has made the referee and observer nominations for the upcoming Men’s U19 WFC Final Round, which will be played in Halifax in Canada from the 8th to 12th of May 2019.

There are eight referee pairs from eight different countries and three observers, also from three different countries. Mr. Ronny Brännbacka from Finland will be the Head of the referees in the tournament and the referee observers are Mr. Tony Holmer from Sweden and Mr. Adrian Kretz from Switzerland.

– I feel very confident of the nominations, since we have a pretty good mixture of experienced referees and also newcomers on this level and this way we can secure that the level of refereeing should be on the level of the matches, says Mr. Carlos Lopez, the chairman of the IFF Referee Committee.

– I’m also looking forward to have a very good and high level tournament, he concludes.

The nominated referees are:

Jakub Furmanek / Vlastimil Solc CZE
Thomas Ellis / Janne Sjögren FIN
Kaspars Kristapsons / Maris Kumerdanks LAT
Bartosz Burek / Wojciech Czarnecki POL
Sharil Ismail / Oswind Rosayro SGP
Tomas Beno / Roman Sklenica SVK
David Geiser / Henrik Nilsson SWE
Benjamin Hohler / Pascal Koch SUI

Visit the MU19 WFC website for more tournament information.